{{Short description|Australian rules footballer (1941–2024)}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = John Goold | image = | fullname = John William Crosbie Goold | birth_date = {{birth date|1941|6|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|05|31|1941|6|27|df=yes}} | death_place = | originalteam = Healesville (YVFL) | debutdate = Round 7, 1963 | debutteam = Carlton | debutopponent = Footscray | debutstadium = Western Oval | height = 187 cm | weight = 80 kg | position = | statsend = 1970 | years1 = 1963–1970 | club1 = Carlton | games_goals1 = 108 (3) | careerhighlights = }}

'''John William Crosbie Goold''' (27 June 1941 – 31 May 2024) was an Australian rules footballer who represented {{AFL Car}} in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s.<ref name="obituary" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-06-02 |title=Farewell football's 'Mr Elegant': A tribute to John 'Ragsy' Goold |url=https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/1569859/farewell-footballs-mr-elegant-a-tribute-to-john-ragsy-goold |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=carltonfc.com.au |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life and education== John William Crosbie Goold was born on 27 June 1941. Originally from Healesville in the Yarra Valley of Victoria, Australia, he attended Melbourne Grammar School, as a boarder, for 11 years.

==Football== Recruited from the Yarra Valley Football League (YVFL) club Healesville,<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hBxQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lJYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2003%2C4932054 League Teams Chosen: Footscray v. Carlton, ''The Age'', (Friday, 31 May 1963), p.24.]</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hBxQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lJYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3342%2C4934237 Blues Name New Forward Flanker, ''The Age'', (Friday, 31 May 1963), p. 24.]</ref> Goold was a half back and played in two Carlton premiership sides. The first in 1968 saw him line up at centre half back and the second came two years later in the 1970 VFL Grand Final which would be his last league game.

Goold represented Victoria at interstate football, including at the 1966 Hobart Carnival, where he earned All-Australian selection and finished second in the Tassie Medal voting. He also polled well in that year's Brownlow Medal, finishing in eighth place.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

A fashion designer during his football career, which earned him the nickname "Ragsy", after he retired from football, Goold took up farming at a property in Ellerslie, Victoria, and became involved in horse-breeding, specifically polo ponies.<ref name=":0" />{{external media | width = 300px | float = right | headerimage= | video1 =[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT3JyK2c5ig John Goold - Carlton Football Club Past Player, ''Spirit of Carlton TV'']. | video2 =[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psFqG3Xt-L4 CFC 150: 1960s - Goold, Hall and Collins, ''Carlton Football Club'']. | video3 =[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkKKieErY1Q Carlton Hall of Fame - John Goold, ''Carlton Football Club'']. | video4 =[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WvM-CE20_0 "The Carlton Football Club" - John Goold's address to the ''Spirit of Carlton'' luncheon in 2008 (Part One), ''Spirit of Carlton TV'']. | video5 =[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cl1UY7IcEo "The Carlton Football Club" - John Goold's address to the ''Spirit of Carlton'' luncheon in 2008 (Part Two), ''Spirit of Carlton TV''].}}

==Personal life and death== Goold married Joanna Darling Baillieu in March 1968. Their son, Ed, played reserve grade football for Carlton from 1997 to 1998. John Goold died from cancer on 31 May 2024, in Camperdown, Victoria, at the age of 82.<ref name="obituary">{{cite news |last1=Auld |first1=Tim |title=South-west mourns two-time Carlton premiership player |url=https://www.standard.net.au/story/8648647/vale-carlton-football-legend-john-goold-passes-away-at-82/ |access-date=3 June 2024 |publisher=The Standard |date=2 June 2024}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://spiritofcarlton.com.au/blog/2011/06/27/john-goold-happy-70th-birthday/ "John Goold: Happy 70th Birthday!"], spiritofcarlton.com.au. Accessed 3 June 2024. * {{AFL Tables | J/John_Goold }} * [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=John+Goold John Goold, Blueseum profile] * [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Ed+Goold Ed Goold, Blueseum profile] * {{AustralianFootball | john+goold/9461 }}

{{1968 Carlton premiership players}} {{1970 Carlton premiership players}} {{1966 All-Australian team}} {{1966 Victoria State Football Team}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goold, John}} Category:1941 births Category:2024 deaths Category:Deaths from cancer in Victoria (state) Category:People educated at Melbourne Grammar School Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Category:Carlton Football Club players Category:Carlton Football Club premiership players Category:All-Australians (1953–1988) Category:Australian polo players Category:VFL/AFL premiership players Category:People from Healesville

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